Is it kino? Is it garbage? Is it just ok? Im interested in it as my first .45 acp, any thoughts from current or former owners? Obviously wouldnt get it in Fag Dark Earth and im not a black person

>>64053292 (OP)
It feels, I don't know how to say it, but kind of "cheap" in a way that's hard to nail down. It's not, and mine has been perfectly reliable, even with hand loads, but it's just weird feeling in the hand. It's also fuckhuge and holds 15+1 rounds of .45. If you can't solve a problem with that much .45, then you probably can't solve that problem with a handgun, period. Triggers vary gun to gun. I have owned two, a Duty years ago when they first came out, and a Tactical more recently, and the Duty had by far the better trigger for some reason. I've heard from others that it's a gun to gun thing though, and not Duty vs Tactical related. Looks better in black, but you know that.

>>64053330
It would hypothetically be my pillow or nightstand gun, as well as a range toy as all guns should be

>>64053292 (OP)
SQUISHY SQUISH :DDDDD

>>64053340
That's what I use mine for. It's main downside of being absolutely massive doesn't really matter in that role, so go for it.

>>64053292 (OP)
>is it garbage
UH OH, SQUISHY SQUISHY!
It should be alright, but a CZ-97B is better.

>>64053670
>discontinued

they're neat. I was staying up last night looking at pictures of fnx-45s converted to .460 rowland and reading about them.
you can shoot 185gr at about 1550fps, absolutely nuts
I like the stainless slide versions, they're a cool looking gun.

>>64053688
It's a fat, double stack .45. It not like anyone shoots these kinds of guns after they buy them. It and the FNX are both poser guns for people who think but don't know.

>>64053704
They look so much better in black. I really wish I'd gotten mine in two tone or black and not FDE/tan.

>>64053292 (OP)
It's worse than the HK45 on paper but it's probably okay, Tim Sundles says both are gudenuff for bear defense with hardcast 45+p, plus they suppress well so it can pull double duty if you live in an area with dangerous wildlife and/or niggers

>>64053292 (OP)
It's one of FN's few good pistols. For some reason FN fucked up their 9mm polymer pistol, their 10mm pistol, and their .22 LR pistol (this one makes sense because their .22 LR pistol is made by Umarex).

>>64053292 (OP)
>shoots GODS/MORMON JESUS'S CALIBER 45ACP SLUG CASTERS (plus hollow points which 1911's typically have issues with)
>looks cool (subjective, but I think it looks cool)
>made by a non meme company
Sure, why not OP?

>>64053292 (OP)
I liked mine. It maintained a zero with the shitty venom i tossed on it. It is faaaaat as hell tho, handle one first before buying. The trigger was also kinda jelloy

>>64053292 (OP)
>Im interested in it as my first .45 acp
Buy an entry-level single stack 1911 first. Buy the FNX later and convert it to 460 Rowland. Then buy a better 1911 and convert it to 460 Rowland too because 1911s feel much better in the hand and have better triggers.

t. bought one in flat dark poop because that's the meme color for it but I'm also not a black person

>>64053704
GOD FUCKING DAMNIT FUCKIG SB MZUZLE BRAKES WITH PORTS AT THE BOTTOM ARE MY BIGGEST PET PEIVE REEEEEEEEEE! WHAT RECOIL MITIGATION COULD YOU POSSIBLY GET WHEN YOU PUT HOLES AT THE BOTTOM! IT FUCKING CANCLWS IT OUT! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

>>64054273
I was just thinking the same thing. the only thing that I can come up with is that there's so much porting on the top that it would actually make the gun recoil downward like the halbek device on FALs reportedly does, but if that's the case, why not just cut the ports on the top smaller? truly a bizarre design decision.

>>64054273
>>64054320
That compensator is not just for recoil mitigation. It's primarily there to delay the unlocking of the barrel so the slide won't overrun the magazine spring. Some 460 Rowland Glock conversions attach a huge weight to the rear of the slide as a replacement for the rear sight to achieve the same effect.

>>64053292 (OP)
I still want one after all these years

>>64053704
qrd on how to convert one? Is it just a barrel and spring?

>>64053292 (OP)
get a HK45 C instead

>>64054446
Why the C and not just the USP or HK45

>>64054427
You can just ship the 460 Rowland people your FNX 45 Tactical slide assembly and magazines. They'll modify your existing barrel+chamber and install the new springs for you.
>>64054446
>no optics mount

i've had so many dudes on armslist try to trade me their .460 rowland FNX because they realized its over a dollar a round

>>64054553
>i've had so many dudes on armslist try to trade me their .460 rowland FNX because they realized its over a dollar a round
Correct, anyone who doesn't handload should stick to 9mm, 380 acp, and .22 LR. LOL

>>64054553
For handloading a couple hundred casings should be more than enough, other than fun and blasting bears through their skull and out their asshole idk how much use it would have over even .45 +p

>>64053292 (OP)
I think it's cool, but I don't get why FN thinks they can charge $1200 for a generic polymer DA/SA that has no history before 2006. Did FN think they could ride the "first factory optics cut slide" bit forever? It's a terrible deal with the available competition, but the pistol is good.

>>64054273
Muzzle brakes and comps don't do shit on normal guns anyways. USPSA/IPSC guys have to run pissin hawt loads just to get enough gas velocity to work their comps. The standard pressure shit running out of your bedazzled add-on isn't doing shit.
>but I *feel* like
You're beholden to the placebo and a retard. It isn't doing dick.
>but uspsa guys run massive comps that need all that gas to work, my little barrel-phimosis device doesn't need that to work
Yes it does. All you're doing is making the gun louder and then assuming it's working. You're a chimp hooting and jumping over loud noises. Barely even human in your animalistic idiocy.

>>64053670
>leave polymer frame gun in a car in the desert sun for the entire summer day
>zomg squishy

I’d take squshy squishy over siggy siggy anyway

>>64053292 (OP)
buy usp

>>64053292 (OP)
I like mine. The trigger is shit and it isn't as accurate as I'd like with my range blaster reloads but it shoots straight enough with good ammo. My main complaint is that it's fucking huge, which isn't really a problem but it's weird because it's so light in relation to its size. It's a gun with kind of a cool back story too.

>>64055154
I've never had this happen with any polymer framed gun. Literally nobody else on earth has either. You clearly don't own guns, or are too busy licking lead residue to ever shoot them.

FN had never heard of it happening either, admitted it was a material flaw of that one gun, and him to send them the gun so they could analyze it and figure out wtf even went wrong. Go figure retard, gun companies know deserts exist and design their guns to work in them.

What's wrong with your hand

>>64053292 (OP)
One of them just went for 700ish on Gunjoker. The inferior HK45 went for 500.

>>64055076
I see them (very lightly) used for $900ish often enough. I think they attract tactical Timmys who don't realize what a big fucking pistol they are, or that .45 is slightly more expensive than 9mm.

>>64055076
DA/SA guns are more expensive to make than striker-fired slop, so as striker-fired guns become more ubiquitous, companies will try to exploit DA/SA fans more.

>460
>jams

>>64055552
I don't know anyone, DA/SA fan or not, who is interested in the FNX 45 when it's competing against the USP 45.

>>64053292 (OP)
.45 is an impractical round for a tacticool gun. Just get a 1911 you’ll actually enjoy shooting instead of more polystrikershit with a goopy staple gun trigger.

>>64054553
>paid a few hundred bucks to convert their pistol to a hot boutique round
>didn't check ammo prices first
>don't load their own
I'm a bit of a 2A absolutist, but some people really are too stupid to be allowed to own guns. I still support their right to own them, but I don't feel good about it.

>>64053292 (OP)
I have the FNP-45 Tactical which preceded it. FNH said a massive fuck you to us and released the FNX-45. The FNP-45 has a problem with dimples on the barrel on a groove above the FP stamp on the barrel, the magazines are undersized and dont feed ammo over 1.260" COAL (1.275 is max COAL according to SAAMI, Winchester White Box is even longer), and the trigger to trigger bar pin is prone to walking out. Rather than fix these issues under warranty, they released a new gun and told us all to spend $1k+ again. Say what you want about the Sig P320 but this is even worse.

other than that i like how fuckhuge they are, i have the large curved backstrap and a hogue grip on it, and a 40 Super conversion

>>64054553
You can still shoot regular 45 ACP with a recoil spring swap. It’s the same concept as shooting 38 special and 357 magnum through the same gun.

>>64054385
how do ports on the bottom help delay locking though? are all of the ports angled backward?

>>64055783
fuck i meant unlocking not locking

>>64055118
This is demonstrably false.
https://youtu.be/W_k8hDhj0Vc?si=mkv_aWzgEJKDMjy2

>>64055700
>I don't know anyone, DA/SA fan or not, who is interested in the FNX 45 when it's competing against the USP 45.
>"Competing"
Look, man, gun companies compete for military, LEO, and security company contracts. They don't compete for consumers because they know people love to consume. My country has more than half of the guns in circulation in the world despite it's population only being 4.22% of the world's population. The people who've bought guns will buy more guns, and companies know that.

>>64055748
That does sound pretty scummy, but not as bad as SIG's P320 debacle, as that isn't endangering people's lives.

Get a 1911 for the novelty of it, since 45 is a novelty round in today's day and age.
Capacity and cost are ass while having negligible difference in terminal ballistics compared to 9 and 40.

>>64056213
A suppressed subsonic 230gr will always be better than a suppressed subsonic 147gr.

>>64056303
>louder
>literally zero difference in effectiveness
right

>>64056309
>literally zero difference in effectiveness
Ah, so you're retarded.

>>64056317
>both poke a tiny hole in the target
>coroners literally can't even tell the difference between FMJ and hollowpoint
>but this retard will be out here claiming they can totally tell the difference between a projectile 2mm larger
lol

sorry lil bro, videogames, movies, and that old guy who talks about guns all the time all don't know jack shit. None of the bullshit people think matters, does.

>>64056325
its not quite the same. the 230gr 45 acp will probably penetrate deeper and will probably fare better against things like automotive glass but the 147gr 9mm will penetrate enough for human targets and is substantially cheaper

>>64055878
STFU you fucking nerd, if I want to believe muzzle brakes don't work, then they won't work, fuck you and kill yourself, they don't work, I don't care what you have to say or show me I said they don't work so they don't work. BECAUSE I SAID SO! YOU BITCH ASS BETA! I BET YOU PLAY WITH YOURR PROSTATE! if it did work, which it doesn't it would be the extra weight at the end of the barrel NOT BECAUSE PORTING! FUCK YOU LITTLE SISSY MUZZLE BRAKE BITCH!

>>64056383
>penetrate deeper
Nigger they both can either blow clean through a person and out the other side with full lethal force if you use FMJ or stop in 12-18" of ballistic gelatin if you use hollowpoints, because that's what literally every single hollowpoint is engineered to do.

Fuck your retarded post don't pretend you're on some shit when you don't know dick about ass.

>>64056386
might be helpful if you're handgun hunting or have to shoot through barriers though. fuck you nigger I was pretty much agreeing with you either way, all of my handguns are 9mm or .380 and I have no intentions of buying a .45. eat a dick.

>>64056386
>blow clean through a person and out the other side with full lethal force if you use FMJ or stop in 12-18" of ballistic gelatin if you use hollowpoints
And yet, when both rounds expand, the .45 hollow point hole will be larger than the 9mm hollow point hole. More than the 2 mm you claim it to be.

>>64056392
He can't tell us apart; since you replied to him while he was replying to me, he thought you were me.

>>64053292 (OP)
While cool I would still get a USP 45

>>64056386
>constant velocity but near 200% increase in mass equals constant force
I miss when bait was good

I grew up on the USP45 series and the only time I messed with the FNX45 it was suppressed. Over all it just felt like an offbrand USP45 to me, but it wasn't bad at all.

>>64053292 (OP)
It's a solid gun, thicc but surprisingly comfortable, even for my smaller hands. My one grievance is it spits brass directly back at my head, and the ejector doesn't seem to be easily replaceable nor do spares seem to be offered online.

>>64055154
His first mistake was to live in a desert.

>>64059277
What if i live on the edge of appalachia?

>>64058407
>m-muh mass
It has less energy than a punch. No, your extra mass does literally nothing.
>>64058028
In gel, not in human. Hollowpoints are a meme.

>>64055748
Serves you right for trusting h B*lgians.
>>64055783
>>64055789
The gas coming out of the barrel forces its way through the holes in the compensator, which pushes the barrel forward. I assume the ports that are angled to the lower left and right are there because it's a Browning action with a tilting barrel.

>>64056213
>while having negligible difference in terminal ballistics compared to 9 and 40.
This is what 9lets actually believe.

>>64054234
This. A double stack fuckhueg 45acp is meh, if you get something big make sure it's overpowered like 460 rollin. Either go full retard bear blaster or cope with 9mm.

>>64061710
>muh stopping powa
Alright gramps, time to take a nap

>>64064037
Unless it's a round smaller than 9mm. Then stoppan powah is absolutely real and nothing smaller than .356 has any.

>>64064060
I am a big fan of .30 pooper carry and .32 caliber in general so you can imagine my dismay when 9mmcels play infinite regress of excuses for their favorite caliber while pretending its not really about favorites and theyre totally not poor

>>64055748
I didn't know that. I'd actually bought a FNP tactical, sold it off to a friend, realized that I missed it, and then when I went to buy a replacement I was pissed off that they were no longer available and I had to settle for a FNX tactical. Luck's a fickle thing. You win some, you lose some. I won this one. Don't ask me about the ones that I lost.
>ask me about the volkswagen tdi that I traded in for a jeep in september of 2014
>or the 20 bitcoin that I misplaced in 2010